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BETTER INCOME, SAFE HOMES

A DECENT LIFE FOR EVERYONE

Prices and the cost of living are rising. People struggle to pay their bills. More and more are at risk of poverty. People need help now. We want to make sure that everyone can have a decent life: a stable income, a safe home and food every day.

EU ACTION FOR STABLE INCOME, A SAFE HOME AND FOOD EVERY DAY

The amount of Europeans in poverty and at risk of poverty and social exclusion are staggering. The EU must act to make sure and provide safety nets, making sure people can make ends meet, have safe housing and make sure everyone gets out of the energy crisis better and cleaner.

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OUR KEY DEMANDS

  1. No evictions, no energy cuts - even if you cannot pay your bills - Access to affordable, sustainable and safe housing is a human right!

  2. Minimum wages, minimum income and social benefits need to be urgently updated in all countries in the European Union to the rising prices -  The Minimum Wage Directive should be implemented asap. Additionally, we an EU Framework Directive on Adequate Minimum Income to ensure that everyone has a living income to ensure a life in dignity.

  3. Help people save energy and renovate their homes - The EU needs to respond and provide additional financing to scale up renovations of houses, especially for those already struggling to pay their energy, to ensure adequate renovations can be carried out for comfortable, safe and clean homes all across the EU.

OUR CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES

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Interior of a house in Velingrad Nevena Bulgaria / CC Friends of the Earth
Interior of a house in Velingrad Nevena Bulgaria / CC Friends of the Earth
Event |

Powerful encounters: Picturing an end to energy poverty

"Powerful encounters: Picturing an end to energy poverty” offers a snapshot of people across Europe enduring the energy crisis and battling energy poverty. Join us for the photo exhibition on 27 February at 17:30 in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
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Visual Porto 2023 Statement
Visual Porto 2023 Statement
Publication |

For an ambitious European social agenda

This week’s Porto Social Forum 2023 is a new opportunity to insist that we desperately need urgent action on social issues. The existence of poverty and precarity in one of the richest regions of the globe is unacceptable and the urgent need to act decisively and in solidarity to ensure a socially just transition to a sustainable socio-ec…
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Position Paper |

A transition that works for all the people

A transition to ecological sustainability must go hand in hand with social justice. Our paper fleshes out how the ecological transition can be used to bring about social and economic justice and explains in detail which areas need change and what needs to be done. Read our position paper and executive summary here.
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People walking in a train station / CC0 Christian Wiediger
People walking in a train station / CC0 Christian Wiediger
Opinion |

The EU Minimum Income

Sara Matthieu
Opinion by Sara Matthieu
An EU-wide minimum income would ensure every European can live a decent life. It would guarantee a living income for food, bills and more. What exactly is a minimum income? How could it benefit you? Find out more here.
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Photo by Jacek Dylag on Unsplash
Photo by Jacek Dylag on Unsplash
Position Paper |

EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Income

We need an EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Income to ensure that everyone has a living income that provides them with the financial resources needed to ensure a life in dignity.
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Home for People, not Profit - Thumbnail
Home for People, not Profit - Thumbnail
Video |

Kim van Sparrentak and Leilani Farha on how to fix the housing crisis

If the right to have a home is a human right, why has it become increasingly inaccessible and unaffordable?
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Event |

From financialised to human rights-based housing

This event will mark the global launch of The Shift Directives on financialisation of housing, with Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on Housing. The Directives put forward a human rights based approach to address the growing issue of housing financialisation.
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Study |

My home is an asset class

In this report by Daniela Gabor and Sebastian Kohl, we explore the growing importance of institutional landlords such as Blackstone, focusing in particular on the mechanisms through which European legislation has accommodated their strategies to transform housing into asset classes. We use data to map the complex financial ecosystem behin…
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Press release |

Large investors playing monopoly with Europe’s homes

New data published by the Greens/EFA Group reveals the amount of housing being bought up and controlled as investment assets by large firms across Europe. The study 'My home is an asset class: The Financialization of Housing in Europe' shows how investors, facilitated under the capital markets union, are rapidly buying up significant amou…
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Opinion |

Who (really) owns your city? How corporate landlords are using homes to make money

Ernest Urtasun Kim Van Sparrentak
Opinion by Ernest Urtasun & Kim Van Sparrentak
Greens/EFA MEPs, Kim van Sparrentak and Ernest Urtasun, throw open the doors on Europe’s housing crisis and find out who’s really in control of our homes.